I hate to broach the subject, because a) it's not really my place and b) I don't want to turn away new people. But, from the Barry Dingle incident to whatever the hell is happening now, I don't see where the benefits of letting people post as Guests outweigh the headaches that it brings. If people want to read posts before they register, that's fine...but this tomfoolery has got to stop.
(Also, I like the phrase tomfoolery. Not quite as nice as shenanigans, but a little bit more underground...)
Hmmm... normally I'm a pretty inclusive guy, but I really like that idea.
I'm for it.
I am, too.
tomfoolery is not a phrase...it's a word. But I agree with everything else fighton said.
Good point, Emilio...I suppose something like "wacky hiijinx" was more what I was looking for...
Some days when I think my life just isn't exciting enough, I stop and look back on the brief time I spent with Mr. Dingle, oh how I wish I gave him my address.
Quote from: fightonusc on 11/30/04, 01:08:46 PM(Also, I like the phrase tomfoolery. Not quite as nice as shenanigans, but a little bit more underground...)
Hey Farva, what's that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the
walls and the mozzarella sticks?
EDIT: Having just read some of the guest posts, I think they need to go.
Guest posts do not really bother me. Especially when I rip on myself. I think guest posters just like to get in and out. Nothing serious. I have thick enough skin to not be emotionally affected by a guest post. That is just me, and I think the anything goes forum should be the only forum to allow guest posts. I started as a guest, and I was inspired to become a member. I hate other forums where you cannot go in and give it a test drive before you have to become a member.
Get rid of member posting. I have read some of those posts, and you jokers need to go.
Eject guest posting
Membership=cover charge for the Dee-Nee bar
The dorm is gonna be sooooo pissed.
So what's the ruling, Zettler?
Shouldn't these guys be playing quarters or popping each other's zits or something?
Not quite sure what to do yet. Dark Side is right, many people start out with a couple guest posts and get hooked that way. Haven't had enough time to deliberate, but the posting level for guests is typically positive. I'll figure it out shortly...
Quote from: Gantry on 12/01/04, 10:53:21 AM
I'll figure it out shortly...
So we'll get a decision in about three weeks?
Quote from: Gantry on 12/01/04, 10:53:21 AM
Not quite sure what to do yet. Dark Side is right, many people start out with a couple guest posts and get hooked that way. Haven't had enough time to deliberate, but the posting level for guests is typically positive. I'll figure it out shortly...
Also if anyone really wants to be a dick, they'll create an account, didn't Barry Dingle actually create an account? I'm not sure it really solves that much.
Not sure what the big deal is. If people want to be trolls there's not much you can do to stop em.
We could always go Keyser Soze on their asses - kill them, their parents, their children, their friends...
No one fucks with Dee-Nee.
David Guest?
Quote from: Mike D. on 12/01/04, 08:40:41 PM
David Guest?
David Gest gets beat up by old ladies, much like the new guest posters need to have done to them.
I am in favor for keeping guest posts. It is an effective approach to luring new members.
I suggest that if a guest poster decides to be an asshole, simply ignore his posts. He will feel left out by not being acknowledged, uninspired to make more posts, and will leave in peace.
Seriously, if a guest poster comes in and makes his presence known as an asshole, it is only for a couple of days and maybe 10 annoying posts at the most. Dee-Neers, show some mental toughness by just taking the asshole guest posters as a joke. The more you reply to an asshole poster, the more he is going to post negative shit. It is that simple.
That is how The Dark Side lightened up. I realized that I was an asshole in the beginning, but it was just for shits and giggles. But it got a little personal at times. So I backed off, because I love Dee-Nee and RBI. It also gets pretty lonely here in Sweden. Swedish guys are boring to hang with.
I bet there is Hockey on TV in Sweden.
fknNHL
Also, Gantry...why not announce who's IP address is posing as the guest account? Why protect them when they are doing it just to be an a-hole?
I typically like to discuss the matter with people beforehand to see if they let up. Like in this case it was the same IP as aldrete bastard but it wasn't actually him. Ditto with the chubbs/dingle incident. I'd prefer to get the other person's story first before the dee-nee faithful gang up on him...
Guest posting is too valuable to get rid of. If the same guests won't stop then I'll have to ban the IP address. All these guest posts are coming from the same place...
OK, the explaination from Gantry is good enough for me. Somehow, I was thinking that it would be easier to limit people from posting if they had to sign up first, but I guess you could just ban the IP address.
I'm more than happy to lead a contingent of Dee-Nee's "finest" up to Aldrete Bastard's dorm and politely explain to these guest posters that they are no longer welcome on the site. It seems like he's in Canada, so we'll have to make sure we are careful not to get thrown into a rough and tumble Canadian jail, but I'm game...anyone else with me?
(And by lead, I mean get everyone else riled up to do it, and then back out at the last minuet while everyone else does the dirty work.)
before I joined this site, I guest posted and was urged to join it. Now, after all this time I am a better man for it.
I think we should get rid of immigration, too. Damn ferriners taking my jobs and stuff.
Quote from: Mike D. on 12/06/04, 10:03:14 AM
I think we should get rid of immigration, too. Damn ferriners taking my jobs and stuff.
Good point. I lost my fruit picken' job cause those durned foreyners. When's that there Dale Earnhardt special on?
Dey took ur jobs.
Quote from: BeeJay on 12/06/04, 08:21:50 PM
Dey took ur jobs.
I've never seen that South Park episode...but I've heard that line quoted about 100 times, and it's funny each time.
Quote from: CurtFlood on 12/06/04, 08:49:05 PM
Quote from: BeeJay on 12/06/04, 08:21:50 PM
Dey took ur jobs.
I've never seen that South Park episode...but I've heard that line quoted about 100 times, and it's funny each time.
I'm just glad someone got the reference. The Goobacks episode was great.
I have never seen that episode either but I actually use that line all the time.
Here's my favorite commentary on the subject, by Steven Lynch
If I could be a superhero
I'd be Immigration dude
I'd send all the foreigners back to their homes
For eating up all of our food
And taking our welfare and best jobs to boot
Like landscaping, dishwashing, picking our fruit
I'd pass a lot of laws to get rid of their brood
'Cause I'd be Immigration Dude
Quote from: BeeJay on 12/07/04, 04:31:44 PM
Here's my favorite commentary on the subject, by Steven Lynch
If I could be a superhero
I'd be Immigration dude
I'd send all the foreigners back to their homes
For eating up all of our food
And taking our welfare and best jobs to boot
Like landscaping, dishwashing, picking our fruit
I'd pass a lot of laws to get rid of their brood
'Cause I'd be Immigration Dude
I listen to Stephen Lynch's CDs at least once a week...Fridays at work are always a mix of Stephen Lynch, Dane Cook, and Lewis Black. God, I love Fridays.
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Racist.
I got nothing against people named Stephen...
I hate Homeless Stephen. I like to savagely rape him and take his spare change... at least once a week.
Get rid of guest posting. Especially now. It gets fucking stupider every day.
Nightwulf
I agree with Nightwulf, based on the lone fact that I'm afraid to disagree.
While I'm not afraid of Nightwulf (respect doesn't result in fear for me), the guest posting should at least be suspended for a while. All the guest posts lately have been pointless.
Maybe a certain number of guest posts allowed and then an account is required to be opened.
Quote from: malnuboy on 12/08/04, 11:28:13 PM
I agree with Nightwulf, based on the lone fact that I'm afraid to disagree.
Um, these "stupid guest posts that have been popping up lately," which have been "pointless" have all been mine.
I was reading some threads asking for the "return of shitpaw," but I guess that wasn't the overwhelming majority.
It's been fun, but I'm done.
QuoteIt gets fucking stupider every day.
This made me laugh, sheer irony.
Quote from: ShitPaw on 12/09/04, 05:03:14 AM
Quote from: malnuboy on 12/08/04, 11:28:13 PM
I agree with Nightwulf, based on the lone fact that I'm afraid to disagree.
It's been fun, but I'm done.
Im off to eat my hamburgers on a bun, while I run in the sun.
No more rhymes now, and I mean it!
Anybody want a peanut?
This website is bright, but there is no shitpaw in sight. without his post, we're all toast.
I like oranges.
How do you like dem apples?!
I bought my Grandpa a wallet for Christmas.
Quote from: Mike D. on 12/09/04, 08:42:34 AM
This made me laugh, sheer irony.
Care to explain why? Hint: Alanis Morrisette doesn't define "ironic" correctly; a dictionary may help.
Nightwulf
MikeD, you are not allowed to post again until you read, and memorized, the entire dictionary.
It's like meeting the man of my dreams...and then meeting his beautiful wife.
Here's why, with definition:
2a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).
While attempting to point out how guest posting is getting dumbed down, you actually made a grammatical mistake. The phrase would have been better if stated as such: "more stupid".
Therefore, the irony exists in the fact that I would have expected a post attacking the intelligence of "guests" to have been grammatically correct. That is the incongruity in this instance. Better?
Miked, you're basing this on the fact that stupider is not in the dictionary. I have no clue. Will not get involved anymore. For I is the smarter men alive tooday.
Quote from: T Roogs on 12/09/04, 02:22:37 PM
MikeD, you are not allowed to post again until you read, and memorized, the entire dictionary.
Ha!
Ah. Good explanation. Sorry, ever since Alanis' butchering of the word I become very edgy at the use of "ironic."
That said, "stupider" is a commonly accepted term. While English professors might frown upon it, it is not incorrect.
Nightwulf
Guest posting has been an inspiration for shitpaw.
QuoteAh. Good explanation. Sorry, ever since Alanis' butchering of the word I become very edgy at the use of "ironic."
No problem wulf. I'd just like to have everyone contemplate the following statement: "Don't fuck with the Lords of Hell!"
Damn, I was hoping someone would come back with:
"Don't fuck with the babysitter!"
Eh what was that? I couldn't hear you over the babysitter screaming for her life. Don't tell mom :P
Quote from: ShitPaw on 12/09/04, 05:03:14 AM
Quote from: malnuboy on 12/08/04, 11:28:13 PM
I agree with Nightwulf, based on the lone fact that I'm afraid to disagree.
Um, these "stupid guest posts that have been popping up lately," which have been "pointless" have all been mine.
I was reading some threads asking for the "return of shitpaw," but I guess that wasn't the overwhelming majority.
It's been fun, but I'm done.
That was back in the month where dee-nee was up for grabs. Everyone was fighting about everything. People bitched about spelling errors and grammar mistakes like it was the end of the world. Then there was this whole "I miss old school dee-nee" thing. I'm glad ya'll gave up cuz that crusade was going nowhere.
Its nice that things are peaceful again, but minus one Shitpaw.
That made me emotional, TRoogie.
Thanks for intruducing me to this thread. It makes me happy.
I hope I didn't add to the posts that are becoming stupider
For some reason, I missed this before. Shitpaw left the boards because of this? Wasn't this thread about the Canadian kids who were posting shit on the RBI board, not the stuff shitpaw was talking about? Did he leave the board out of a misunderstanding?
Of course I won't go back and read the original posts, but someone help me out here. We may have to start a "come back shitpaw" drive...
I thought it was about the Canadian bastard kids myself (and I'm the one who started the thread). But ShitPaw assumed we were talking about him. I'm still unclear as to why he deleted all of his posts, though.
Actually, Mclane and I bashed him pretty hard when he changed to murdock, and then started making each of his posts under a different guest name.
Even so, this thread was about the Canucks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canuck) most of the ire was in their direction...
In fact he told me that he was going to don the Murdock alias before he did it, just to make sure it wasn't going to upset me. Poor Shitpaw, he left for the wrong reason...
I had no idea that he deleted all his old posts, that is crazy...
http://forums.dee-nee.com/index.php?topic=3721.0
I was searching and this thread cracked me up. JoeDirt needs to change his username again and the thread will be perfect.